clippers

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A smaller percentage of babies get the disease by sharing food, nail clippers or other common household items with their fathers, grandparents or day-care teachers.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2025

As Carlos told it, his brother took the clippers, began to buzz, and in the harrowing tradition of at-home haircuts gone amok, somewhere along the way…

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 8, 2025

Crouched in cold mud under a thin Spring rain, vineyard employee Élodie Bonet snaps off unwanted vine shoots with her fingers and pruning clippers.

From BBC • May 25, 2025

In another photo, the fake-bald Stamos is holding hair clippers to Coulier's bald head.

From Salon • Nov. 19, 2024

She flew up the drive and suddenly she saw Miss Honey in the front garden, standing in the middle of a bed of roses doing something with a pair of clippers.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl